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A Git credential helper that securely authenticates to GitHub, GitLab and BitBucket using OAuth.

6 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 2 stories, 4 comments · first 2023-06-01 · latest 2025-12-14

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  1. …[2] https://developer.1password.com/docs/ssh/git-commit-signing/ [3] https://github.com/hickford/git-credential-oauth [4] https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_auth_login
    comment by 0xbadcafebee · 2025-12-14 · in Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem
  2. …works, but I’d love to be able to just use git-credential-oauth [0] like for any other repo. [0]: https://github.com/hickford/git-credential-oauth
    comment by notpushkin · 2025-06-12 · in Bypassing GitHub Actions policies in the dumbest way possible
  3. Not quite sure how I feel about all the ClientSecret being hardcoded https://github.com/hickford/git-credential-oauth/blob/62635f... Is this the only way to make OAuth credential helper work?
    comment by sluongng · 2023-06-01 · in Show HN: Git credential helper using OAuth in browser
  4. …For comparison, git-credential-oauth Linux binaries (x86_64 and arm64) are much smaller at 5 MB. https://github.com/hickford/git-credential-oauth#comparison-...
    comment by mattme · 2023-06-01 · in Show HN: Git credential helper using OAuth in browser